Roy Eltham
Founder at Roy Eltham Games
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRoy Eltham is a veteran game programmer and founder with over three decades of experience shipping and architecting game engines, tools, and content pipelines for major titles like Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Planetside 2, EverQuest, H1Z1, and Ashes of Creation. He specializes in tooling and engine work—authoring rendering systems, shaders, editor tooling, and a JSON-backed multi-user design data system integrated with source control to speed designer workflows. At Valve and Daybreak he built in-client content creation and publishing tools and pioneered custom skin and shader pipelines used in live service economies. Known for turning legacy code into modern, scalable systems, he has repeatedly led small teams to deliver high-impact editor and engine features that enable rapid content iteration. Now based in San Diego, he focuses on small, fun indie games while retaining deep expertise in rendering, editor UX, and cross-platform tooling. An uncommon detail: he has a track record of moving traditionally external SDK tools into cross-platform in-client solutions, improving accessibility for creators on macOS and Linux as well as Windows.
13 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
None, None, None, None at No college
English
Github Skills (33)
simple-gui10
sd-card9
c649
parser9
visual-studio-extension9
robot9
hlsl8
65028
visual-studio8
source-port8
retrocomputing7
robotics7
graphic7
direct3d7
directx7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
reltham/flexprop
Feb 2020 - Jan 2021
Simple GUI for Propeller development (both P1 and P2)
Contributions:48 PRs, 28 pushes in 10 months
simple-guiguipropeller
parallaxinc/OpenSpin
Mar 2014 - Dec 2018
Spin/PASM compiler for the Parallax Propeller.
Contributions:8 releases, 44 commits, 5 PRs in 4 years 9 months
compiler
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